Russia has compiled lists of Ukrainians to target after an invasion, a U.S. official has claimed, as Putin mulls officially recognizing Ukraine's breakaway regions.
Russia has been waging war on Ukraine for eight years now and further incursions are very possible, said Sonia Mycak of the Australian National University.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that the U.S. will unveil new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday.
Russia doesn't want NATO and Kyiv to believe that arms exports to Ukraine successfully deterred Moscow, said Rob Lee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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